The Europaeum, a network of leading university institutions of which the Institute is an active member, has launched “the Europaeum Scholars Programme” a new doctoral training programme  designed to produce a new generation of leaders, thinkers, and researchers who have the capacity and desire to shape the future of Europe. It is multi-disciplinary, multi-university and multi-locational, and it will engage academic thinking with the cultural, political, and societal challenges facing Europe today.

Dr Andrew Graham, Executive Chair of the Europaeum and Chair of the Academic Council, commented that the programme “is a major innovation designed to meet contemporary challenges. Each of the key features of the new programme – its use of teams, its pulling together of the disciplines, its cross-university, cross-country, and cross-cultural mix, its engagement with the governed as well as the governing, and its concern with moral and ethical considerations – make it ready to contribute from the start to the problems currently facing Europe.”

Three Graduate Institute PhD students have been selected to  join the first cohort of the Europaeum Scholars Programme, which will commence on 2nd January.

Manuel Dorion-Soulié (International History), Thomas Gidney (International History) and Giulia Raimondo (International Law) will participate in a group of thirty scholars  who will follow the two-year programme in parallel with their doctoral degrees. The scholars, who come from a variety of humanities and social sciences disciplines, will collaborate via plenary sessions, small group discussions, lectures, and group projects, with a thematic focus on identity, inclusion, growth and development, and sustainability.